After reading the two pieces and follow-up research on GPS, I feel as though we should definitely be utilizing the technology less, at least on a domestic level. Although it is something that is used for directions and is “cool”, it’s easy to see that the technology is too powerful to be given to some individuals for just a few hundred dollars. The common man is only able to really do three things with the GPS technology: halt being lost, track a stolen car or teenager down, or do some type of heinous crime. Finding where you want to go and possibly helping to save a life is of course great, but is also being stalked or tracked unknowingly by someone you know also a benefit? Or taking it further, what about when it’s by someone you don’t know? The answers to the last couple questions are obvious, and the happenings seem to be occurring more often than the actual saving-lives part does. People with mental illnesses or those that are just plain evil are able to equip themselves with a tool to hinder someone else’s life or worse, and that isn’t “cool”. Or maybe it isn’t complex-enough for you why it is more of a risk than a benefit? What if a father wants to just see if his daughter is being taken to a party instead of the library to studying (like she said), so he places the GPS device underneath his car to track her every move. Is GPS technology still a good thing? From the father’s standpoint, it’s pure gold and will probably further fall in love with it’s capabilities. But from the daughter’s standpoint, her right to privacy was just violated. Is this any different from the government utilizing GPS to spy? Maybe not on the same scale, but they are definitely correlated in immorality. To clarify, I do not condone the death of GPS for all these negative usages. I am simply stating what may happen if the technology is improperly used, so in fact, condoning even more so that the user be punished. The author of the article linked below can back me on this (and majority of the things I’ve stated), and they even seem to take a very similar approach to persuading why the risks outweigh the benefits. Frankly, GPS is just too much for some to handle civilly; but it’s still smart to keep in mind that GPS doesn’t kill people, the deranged persons utilizing that GPS technology does.
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